Excerpt from Budge Toddie: Or Helen's Babies at Play; Being an Account of the Further Doings of These Marvelously Precocious Children When in the course of human events it becomes meces sary for a writer to impose five books upon the public within a single year, a decent respect for literary custom demands that he should make known the reasons which impelled him to do so: The author of Helen's Babies might evade the subject by admitting, as he is perfectly willing to do, that his books are no part of literature as the word is defined at present. For the selfish purpose, however, of quieting his own apprehensions, he desires to say that, with the exception of this volume, the books he has published since Helen's Babies were partially or wholly completed before the story of Budge and Toddie had gained more than ordinary attention; that they were either under consideration, or were announced by different publishers; and that, as from a sentiment which he took for modesty, and also becau'se he objected to having such hurried sketches appear as the measures of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.